From March 10–14, 2025, a group from NHS England was in Ghana for a Managed Training Partnership (MEP) scoping mission. In collaboration with the Psychological Health Authority (MHA), World Health Organization (WHO) Ghana, and the United Kingdom International, Commonwealth & Style Office (UKFCDO), the mission aimed to decentralize healthcare training past Accra and Kumasi, pork up service shipping, and reinforce Ghana’s smartly being outcomes.
The visit featured high-level engagements, including meetings with key stakeholders (including Ministry of Health (MoH), regulators, service services, academia, genuine teams) , a courtesy calls on the British Excessive Commissioner and the Minister of Health, and discussions with the leadership of Cape Flee Teaching Sanatorium and Ankaful Psychiatric Sanatorium. The mission culminated in a workshop, involved in crew transformation and skill-building, adopted by a put up-workshop review and final wrap-up with the MoH.
The Managed Training Partnerships, developed by NHS England, facilitate enduring collaborations between the NHS and global healthcare systems. These partnerships prioritize gigantic systemic relationships over individual genuine exchanges, co-developing sustainable learning and model opportunities. Existing MEPs include partnerships with Thailand, Montserrat, and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
Recognizing the necessary need for exact Human Resources for Health (HRH), the UK and Ghana are collaborating to pork up information alternate, be taught model, and in truth good training. The MEP aligns with Ghana’s decentralization agenda and makes a speciality of key smartly being priorities, including psychological smartly being. By leveraging skills from each nations, the initiative seeks to make stronger genuine ties, produce healthcare leaders, and make a contribution to Sustainable Style Objectives (SDGs) related to smartly being (SDG 3), schooling (SDG 4), gender equality (SDG 5), and first charge work (SDG 8).
Discussions on establishing an MEP in Ghana began in 2021, with UKFCDO providing initial funding. Ghana’s MoH identified psychological smartly being as a priority impart, given the need for expanded in truth good psychological smartly being training past Accra and Kumasi. Virtual workshops in November 2023 dwelling the root for the July 2024 technical scoping visit, which assessed skill MEP websites and engagement solutions.
During the March 2025 mission, the NHS group visited key institutions, engaging with stakeholders to recognize in mind training needs and skill collaborations. Ankaful Psychiatric Sanatorium in Cape Flee and the Cape Flee Teaching Sanatorium’s would possibly perhaps be the initial facilities for the partnership at the initial stage for the information alternate part of the partnership to reinforce training. The workshop provided a platform for Ghanaian stakeholders to refine the MEP’s framework, ensuring alignment with nationwide priorities.
With exact partnerships in space, the following section of the MEP will focal point on finalizing the action thought, securing long-term funding, and implementing tailored training programs. This collaboration between Ghana and NHS England marks a distinguished step in strengthening healthcare crew model, ensuring equitable entry to quality psychological smartly being products and services, and fostering sustainable improvements in Ghana’s smartly being system.
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Abdul-Lahie Abdul-Rahim Naa
Communications Officer
WHO Ghana Country Office
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